DROOOK DROOOK
Real Name: Droook
Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Badoon) advanced technology-user
Occupation: War Brotherhood Commander
Group Membership: Badoon Brotherhood, War Brotherhood Devastation Cadre (Warrior Lorg)
Affiliations: None known beyond the Badoon
Enemies: Imperial Guard (Arach, Crusher, Dragoon, Ebon, Warstar 34), Gamora, Groot, Kree (notably Captain Yon-Dar, Sharnor the Accuser), Nova Corps (notably Lolet Clawdi, Grekan Yaer), Recorder 127, Rocket (Raccoon), Roamer, Shi'ar Metal Wing Cadre battletroopers, Timely, Incorporated (notably Arnok Gruntgrill, Odus Hanxchamp, Pama Harnon (secretly Una Ren), Mrs. Mantlestreek, Zania Orbal (as Alandra Meramati)), Sledly Rarnak, Homus Staplebunt, Blint Wivvers, Xorb Xorbux), Universal Church of Truth (Cardinal Navorth, Zania Orbal, various Black Knights, Cardinals and Crusaders; unidentified Matriarch)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: War Commander
Base of Operations: Unrevealed
First Appearance: Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy (2017)
Powers/Abilities: As a Badoon, Droook is reptilian, and presumably hairless, with a scale-covered body, with three-webbed fingers and an opposing thumb on each hand, and two toes on each foot.
Also, as is typical for the Badoon, he lacked social grace, good humor, patience, and sympathy.
As a commander, he possessed a force field that shielded him from most forms of injury.
He wielded a War Brotherhood plasma exterminatron, which had a ceremonial jeweled handle.
He also used laser disruptors and combat swords.
As a member of the War Brotherhood Devastation Cadre, he wore a "talon and forked tongue" silver insignia on his War Brotherhood headgear as well as satin-sheet black battle pants.
His canine teeth (or the Badoon equivalent) were steel-enhanced to serve as "war fangs"
History:
(Guardians
of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter
Two: A Spot of Brother) - Droook commander the War
Brotherhood Devastation Cadre, a division not known for taking a
light-hearted approach to love and life, even by Badoon standards.
(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Two: A Spot of Brother (fb) - BTS) - Recorder#127 hid underneath the bandstand at Leery's a bar in Dive-Town, Lumina, planet Xarth III
(Guardians
of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter
One: Last Orders - BTS / Guardians
of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter
Two: A Spot of Brother
(fb) - BTS) - Droook (unidentified) and nine other Badoon arrived at
Leery's in search of the Recorder. The presence of Badoon was scented
by Rocket (Raccoon) who was there with his friend Groot.
(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Two: A Spot of Brother) - Commander Droook identified himself and questioned Rocket about a Rigellian Recorder, of whom he knew nothing. Droook had warrior Lorg show a scan image of the Recorder on his War Brotherhood tactical display and he noted that the Recorder had absconded with sensitive data and that the Badoon believed he had come to this establishment in search of a starpilot or freetrader prepared to offer him passage off-world. At Droook's query, Rocket confirmed that he was carrying bunch of zunks but otherwise could not help him. As was their nature, both Rocket and the Badoon disliked each other in some sort of cobra-mongoose dynamic, but Droook used great self-control to apologize for having troubled Rocket.
However, one of the Badoon
warriors' War Brotherhood tactical scanner then detected Rigellian
technology in the crawlspace under the bandstand and alerted Droook.
The Badoon closed in, drawing their War Brotherhood laser disruptors
and combat swords, and the Recorder emerged from the crawlspace and
tried to flee. As chaos ensued, the bartender Nrrsh the Skrull shouted
and pointed to a sign on the wall that read, "Please
do not draw or discharge firearms or energy-disruption devices on these
premises as a Skrullian punch dagger in the kidneys often offends."
Rocket advised Groot to stay out of it and avoid the trouble. However, as Droook drew his War Brotherhood plasma exterminatron and fired a blast to incapacitate the Recorder while preserving its memory banks, the Galadorian Spaceknight Roamer transported between the two. Taking the blast instead, Roamer's null-shields absorbed the worst of it and deflected the rest, but he was still sent flying across the bar, demolishing the lower rails of the bandstand. The deflected plasma bolt, robbed of most of its lethal charge, whined sidelong across the bar area and instead struck Rocket's drink (a Timothy), destroying it...and pushing Rocket (and Groot) into joining the conflict against the Badoon.
(Guardians
of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter
Three: Throwdown)
- Rocket fired his Nitro Weapons System Model 66 B.P.B. (being-portal
blaster) into Droook's face, but , as a high-status cadre commander,
Droook was equipped with an automatic bodyshield, a personal force
field that snapped on when it pre-sensed incoming energized or
ballistic munitions. This stopped the shot's explosive force, but the
overwhelming "kinetic hammerblow" still knocked Droook off of his feet
and sent him to land facedown in the salad bar.
(Guardians
of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Four: Exit Strategy) - As
Rocket, Groot, and the Recorder tried to flee, they found the exits
blocked, one of them by the Badoon War Brotherhood, backed by a newly
arrived support squad. Still by the salad bar, Droook barked orders and
expletives in equal measure.
Rocket finally blasted a whole in the ground, though which he, Groot, and Recorder #127 dropped eight meters into the midst of the pit-fight ring.
(Guardians
of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Five: Let the Games Begin)
- Rocket, Groot, and the Recorder ultimately escaped back up to the
surface and departed
in Rocket and Groot's spacecraft, the White Stripe, where they were
confronted by Droook and several bloodstained War Brotherhood men with
him. Droook noted, "I think you have something that belongs to me," and
while the Recorder started to correct him that he belonged to no one
except the
Rigellian Colonial Collective, Rocket opened fire. While the other
Badoon scattered or were slain, Droook was protected by his automatic
bodyshield and stood his ground, screaming in rage as he fired back.
Rocket and his group made it into
their ship and took off, and Droook and his men rushed to their War
Brotherhood Assault Ship and pursued. Arriving Nova Corps forces
ordered them to stop, but both Rocket's ship and Badoon's ignored them,
and the Nova Corps ships were forced to veer widely to avoid the
accelerating Badoon ship. Presumably at Droook's command, the Badoon
ship extended its gun turrets, which popped like ugly blisters from its
sleek hull, but as they achieved target lock, Rocket dumped their
cargo, 48 tons of zunk fruit, which hit the Badoon ship, clogging
intakes, jamming gunports, and pulping through thermal exchangers. The
Badoon ship faltered and ultimately peeled away in a crash dive that
ended explosively in the municipal sewage treatment plant.
(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Twenty-Two: Meanwhile (Precisely now on the Kree battleship Pride of Pama) (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Gamora told the Badoon where they could find the Recorder, knowing that they would attack/distract the Kree and allow her to board the Pride of Pama undetected.
(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 18, 20-24 - BTS) - The Badoon battled the Kree in an effort to claim the Recorder. Ultimately the Kree Kris-Gar used a uni-beam weapon to destroy the Badoon's Brotherhood of War ship.
(Guardians
of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 40: Danger in the Workplace (fb) - BTS) - Droook underwent cybernetic reconstruction, which did not improve his visual appeal.
(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 40: Danger in the Workplace (fb) - BTS) - After the Shi'ar Conscience of Sharra, a Nova Corps ship, and the Kree Pride of Pama ships had arrived immediately outside of Timely Inc. headquarters on Alpha Centauri, and all three forces had tried to claim Recorder 127, Droook led ten megadestroyer Badoon ships to arrive beside them, and his ships locked on both the Timely Inc. building and the ships outside it.
(Guardians
of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter 40: Danger in the Workplace)
- Droook interrupted the confrontation between the other races via
a telepresene image, insisting that they would deliver the Recorder
unit to War Brotherhood hands or suffer the consequences. When Nova
Centurion Grekan Yaer, Kree Sharnor the Accuser, and Shi'ar Imperial
Guardsman Arach warned that their respective races would not tolerate
such an affront, Droook advised them that their lone ships put them in
no position to negotiate, and he assured them that his ships' their
batteries were locked on them and insisted they deliver the Recorder
immediately.
At that point, Zania Orbal, a
Sirusite member of the Universal Church of Truth posing as Timely Inc.
agent Allandra Meramati of the Shi'ar, revealed her true nature, and 40
immense UCT Templeships materialized, dwarfing all other ships. A
ruthless, all-out assault on Timely Inc. headquarters ensued.
Comments: Created by Dan Abnett.
In the Acknowledgments section, Dan thanked Stuart Moore, Jeff
Youngquist, Axel Alonso, Dan Buckley, Sarah Brunstad, and James Gunn
for their support in this project.
He also noted "fist-bumps to <the Appendix's own> Ronald Byrd for continuity-fu."
The story notes that the Badoon
believed that there were no words or phrases that could not be improved
by the addition of the prefixes "War" or "Brotherhood," preferably
both.
In-continuity?
People question whether novels should be in-continuity. There is a
mindset that they should arbitrarily and automatically excluded. I
don't get that at all. If the stories fit seamlessly in-continuity and
they add to the
rich texture of the "Marvel Universe," why exclude them? In any case,
characters in such
stories as novels, games, etc. that don't contradict -616 continuity
are considered "fringe characters." They fit into existing continuity,
but are not definitively part of it until they are confirmed to be so
in a story, handbook, etc.
There is one significant continuity glitch, but it
has been referenced in other stories confirmed to take place in
Reality-616 (see Donald's discussion below)
They
sure fit in better than a lot of stuff by certain writers...you know
who you are...and we know who you are...
Not only that, but the story specifically references the universe in
which they dwelled to be Reality-616...however, the Marvel Cinematic
Universe movies refer to their mainstream reality as -616 also...
Counterpoint by Donald Campbell:
As much as I liked this novel, there were some
elements that bothered me. For example, Alpha Centauri is described as a
"cosmic hubworld (that governs) almost thirty systems and trillions of
lives." This definitely does NOT sound the like 616 Alpha Centauri system
where the Centaurians are usually depicted as only having a
"bow-and-arrow" level technology, the Alpha Centaurians (assuming
they are not nearly extinct) are focused on desperately trying to keep their
homeworld habitable, and the Centurii from Centuri-Six (which may or may not
actually be part of the Alpha Centauri system) were all kidnapped by slavers.
And yes, I hold this opinion despite the fact that, in
Annihilators#1/2, Abnett and Lanning established that Rocket Raccoon had
worked for six months as a mail clerk at the Alpha Centauri offices of the
Customer Services Division of Timely Inc. Also, while the Timely offices
were aboard an orbiting ship in that comic, in this novel they are on the
planet Alpha Centauri...which is also wrong/inconsistent with the Marvel Comics
universe.
In conclusion, I really enjoyed the novel but I
don't think it was meant to be canon and I don't think that it should be
treated as being "in continuity." And I would REALLY like some writer
to finally get around to explaining the current status quo in the 616 Alpha
Centauri star system. I mean, what level of technology do the Centaurians
actually possess? What do the Centaurians actually call their race? What is
their name for the planet known to Terrans as Centauri-IV? Can Alpha
Centaurians still live on Arima or was the planet left too dehydrated after
Sub-Mariner I#18? Is Centuri-Six actually in orbit around Proxima
Centauri?
Me again:
Valid point on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but the difference is
that the novel is not clearly a different reality or part of a
different Multiverse than the comics Reality-616 as the cosmic
hierarchy, (Uatu the Watcher, Galactus, etc.) etc., is the same. Additionally, this story goes to
great lengths to fit solidly with Reality-616's continuity, alien
races, etc.
The Alpha Centauri discrepancy is
certainly significant, but bigger issues than that happened consistently in
Bendis' and other writers stories that are considered Reality-616.
Earth-17721 Following the dispersal of Project 616, those involved did various things; some of which may parallel Reality-616's history, but those extending years into the future are, at least, paralleled in this reality. Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot. Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket and Groot: Steal this Galaxy prose novel Chapter Forty-Six Tails to Astonish (2017).
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First posted: 11/03/2023
Last updated: 11/12/2023
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